“There is no food, only ingredients to make food.”, says Ben. “Well then make your own food!” we respond. We don’t buy processed foods very often. We always have lots of healthy food (ingredients) in the house, but we don’t usually buy snacks that we can just open the bag and devour them. It turns […]
Coco was checking out a snake on a cedar tree outside the kitchen window. I took a single photo before Coco decided to take a frustrated swipe at the snake, which promptly slithered away.
I need to build a workshop so I can have a place to do woodworking projects, maintain machines and keep myself and the tools out of the weather while I’m doing it. I have a building site selected and quite a few 8 to 12 foot logs that have been cut to 1 1/2″ thick
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A huge planter full of Dwarf Sunflowers. We’ve seen hummingbirds around the sunflowers, but my chances of getting a picture of them is slim to none. Sarah is relaxing in the garden.
Purple Potted Pole Beans are a new cultivar that we are growing this year. We used 16′ cattle panels formed into an arch to grow these pole beans. They are a bit larger than the green pole beans (Turkey Craw) we grew last year. It doesn’t look like it , but pictured are quarts of
This hen, who is a bit less than a year old, has just hatched out her second clutch of eggs! Her name is Ptera, short for pterodactyl. She’s vicious when it comes to protecting her chicklets! The first clutch was hatched in the nursery area of our coop – just like things are supposed to
Our first foray into inoculating our own oak logs can be viewed, here. That was about 15 months ago, and we have harvested some mushrooms since then, but this was our first sizable harvest of about 4 lbs. We thought we might have let our logs get too dry over the winter, but the boys